Table 2.
Percentage of Schools, Discretionary Wellness Programs by School-Level, 2013
| Program | Elem | Elem Mid |
Middle | Mid High |
High | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrition Education and Demonstration | ||||||
| Eat Well Play Hard32 | 6.5 | 8.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.5 |
| Team Nutrition13 | 62.1 | 54.8 | 32.0 | 27.5 | 42.4 | 48.7 |
| GrowNYC15 | 15.3 | 20.7 | 8.8 | 12.5 | 12.2 | 13.6 |
| Garden to Café5 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| CookShop Classroom18 | 20.9 | 14.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.6 |
| CookShop for Teens29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 0.8 |
| Fresh Fruit and Vegetable33 | 11.8 | 12.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.9 |
| WITS:Cook for Kids28 | 3.6 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 2.5 |
| Physical Education and Activity | ||||||
| NYRR: Developmental Track and Field34 | 12.0 | 12.6 | 18.4 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 9.9 |
| NYRR: Mighty Milers6 | 31.0 | 23.0 | 14.7 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 17.9 |
| Swim for Life35 | 20.1 | 18.5 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 10.0 |
| Move to Improve36 | 12.1 | 14.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.2 |
| Recess Enhancement Program30 | 7.0 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.2 |
| Comprehensive Wellness | ||||||
| Alliance for a Healthier Generation – full7 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 6.4 | 4.5 |
| Alliance for a Healthier Generation - materials only7 |
18.2 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 13.8 | 12.5 | 15.0 |
| Health Corps16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 1.0 |
| Fuel up to Play 6014 | 49.7 | 51.1 | 39.3 | 47.5 | 43.0 | 46.0 |
| School Wellness Grant17 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 7.7 |
| Number of schools | 583 | 135 | 272 | 80 | 393 | 1,463 |
Notes:
All information is for 2012-13 except for BIC, UFM, FFVP and Garden to Café, which are 2011-12. Each program was researched via the internet to determine basic program information and to identify the schools that had adopted each wellness program in school year 2012-13. If this information was not available online, the wellness program was contacted and asked to provide a list of schools that had adopted their wellness program in school year 2012-13.
School levels are mutually exclusive and are defined as follows:
Elementary - schools with grade 4 and where grade 6 is the highest grade
Elementary Middle - schools with grade 4 and grade 7 but no grade above 8
Middle - schools with no grade 4, but a grade 7, and where grade 9 is the highest possible grade
Middle High - schools with no grade 4, but grade 7 and grade 10
High - schools with grades in the range 9-12, but no grades below.